deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22). God has saved us not merely for right thinking and deep feeling but “for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10). The God who made this physical world means for what we think and feel about him to come to expression in the lived-out actions of worship, witness, and practical deeds of love. Doing counts big time. But we have seen from Scripture’s clarion calls to thinking and loving that the Christian life isn’t mere doing.
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